2023-07-16 21:19:44
He Paris Saint Germain exercised the repurchase option on the Dutch international midfielder Xavi Simonswho left the concentration of the PSV Eindhoven in Austria to join the discipline of the group trained by Luis Enrique Martinezas announced in the statement of the Eredivisie club.
The young 20-year-old footballer, who emerged from the youth academy Barcelonaleft the Parisian team last summer, transferred to PSV, with which he has been “a fundamental part of the team led by Ruud van Nistelrooij”, according to the club itself.
???? BREAKING: Xavi Simons has left PSV camp to sign with Paris Saint-Germain!
PSG triggered €6m buy back clause, as revealed days ago.
Understand there are 2 ways now ⤵️
◉ If Mbappé or Neymar leave, Xavi will stay at PSG.
◉ If both stay, Xavi will join another club on LOAN. pic.twitter.com/W8aQNg3PpY
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) July 16, 2023
He has played 49 games, has scored 19 goals (he was the top scorer last year in the competition in the Netherlands), has given nine assists and has been proclaimed champion of the Cup and the Super Cup of his country.
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Also debuting in a World Cup, on December 3, 2022 in Qatar, he will now return to Paris Saint Germain, where he played five years previously between the lower categories and the first team, with whom he played eleven games over two seasons (2020-21 and 2021-22), just three starts, without a goal and with an assist, before going to PSV.
As reported by ‘L’Equipe’, Simons, for whom PSG have paid 6 million euros for his return to the club, will now sign a four-year contract with Paris Saint Germain, although it remains to be determined if he will continue in the team for this campaign or he will go on loan to Leipzig, third in the German Bundesliga.
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